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  • T. S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Bush It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Angela Carter It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Eric Hoffer It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Robert Collier It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Bill Medley It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bel Powley It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Bob Marley It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Alan Cohen It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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